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Soon after he lost his bid for re-election last November, Representative Michael Pappas received a condolence call from his predecessor in Congress, former Representative Richard A. Zimmer. Mr. Pappas told Mr. Zimmer that he was thinking about...

February 14, 1999, Sunday

The lame-duck pens, as they are rudely known by some, will be situated in spare office space in the Rayburn House Office Building, where the 40 members who are not returning to Congress next year will find temporary desk space on Thursday for the...

JUST days after the election, Rush D. Holt, the victorious Democrat in New Jersey's 12th Congressional district, began telling friends -- only half jokingly -- that he had already delivered on a campaign pledge: to unseat the combative House speaker,...

In the end, the upset in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District yesterday may have come down to a piece of doggerel, sung on the floor of the House of Representatives by Michael Pappas, the district's conservative Republican incumbent. It was...

Here are our endorsements for some of the more competitive races in New Jersey: Seventh District (parts of Union, Somerset, Middlesex and Essex Counties): Choosing between Representative Bob Franks and his Democratic challenger, Maryanne Connelly,...

Rush Holt, the Democratic challenger in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District race, was at a union dinner here when Beverly Dey, a Ewing Township secretary, asked why the age when she would be eligible for Social Security benefits had risen to 66...

October 25, 1998, Sunday

This is a tale of two freshmen whose fates may have become oddly intertwined because of one President and his relationship with an intern. The first, Representative Steven R. Rothman, is a first-term Democrat from Fair Lawn who not long ago seemed...

''Why are they doing this to me?'' Representative Marge Roukema asked with a laugh of mock despair. ''I can't explain it, and I am completely confounded.'' But not too worried: On June 2, with 18 years in Congress from her Bergen County district...

May 5, 1998, Tuesday

As support for campaign finance reform legislation builds in the House of Representatives, the lawmakers who have not signed on to the cause are getting more conspicuous. Yesterday we listed the Republicans in the New York metropolitan area who have...